Aidan O’Brien’s Blackbeard Appears Big in G2 Prix Robert Papin | Scoop Dyga
Via Tom Fry
It’s getting hotter by the hour in Europe, and Sunday’s model track tests at Chantilly and The Curragh will call for more of that element from the protagonists, who brave the heat. One who has shown an abundance of courage despite being only a green horse is Ballydoyle’s Blackbeard (Ire) (No, never), who handled the six-hair G2 Darley Prix Robert Papin, this will be his sixth juvenile start and third since his impressive success in The Curragh’s G3 Marble Hill S. on this trip on May 21. Aidan O’Brien is not known for participating in this award, formerly a 5 1/2 competition held at the now defunct Maisons-Laffitte , but he changed the prize this year and also the saddle Antarctica (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}), who looks to need this trip when a narrow third within 5 percent of June 29 is listed by Tipperary S. Nurlan Bizakov Belbek (Fr) (Showcasing {GB}) led the home team’s defense for Andre Fabre to stabilize, returning to his process and distance when beating the opponent back Lova (Fr) (Goken {Fr}) during the G3 Prix du Bois on 19 June.
Kildare Pearls
At The Curragh, the seven-haired G2 Romanised Minstrel S. saw Haras De Saint Pair’s Pearls Galore (Fr) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) bid on the success of the fourth group to extend that tally at the site’s G2 Lanwades Stud S. by more than a mile on May 22. Ballydoyle’s Order Of Australia (Ire) (Australia {GB}) returned to defend her title in this race, having performed well for a long time coming in third in Royal Ascot’s G1 Queen Anne S. on June 14, while that of Peter Brant ‘Rising star TDN’ Dr. Zempf (GB) (Dark Angel {Ire}) puts its reputation in deeper waters than it did in the G3 Ballycorus S campaign. Stables G2 Prix de Sandringham winner June 5 Purplepay (Fr) (Zarak {Fr}) returned from a quarter-long ride that may have stretched her as she finished fifth in the track’s June 26 G1 Pretty Polly S race.
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